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Varon Stands On Matza
Page 2
Korf Springs Into Spring
Page 5
Mazor On Star Wars.
Page 6
THE BOSTON JEWISH TIMESWrite the vision and make it plain upon tables.
HABAKKUK 2:2
VOL. XXXX, NO. 34
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1985
27.NISAN5745
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
The Honeymoon Is Over
As Israeli Cabinet Bickers
JERUSALEM � Israel's
cabinet narrowly approved a
visit to Egypt by Ezer Weizman,
but cracks appeared in the
national unity government in the
process.
$1,000 REWARD
The Jewish Defense League
has offered $1,000 reward for
the apprehension of the
vandals who damaged two
cars outside the home of
Gerald Shapiro in Randolph
this weekend.
On Friday night, the
windshield to Gerald
Shapiro's >c�r was so badly
scratched that it will have to
be replaced.
On Saturday night, the
vandals returned and
attempted to scratch a
swastika on the back
windshield of Susan
Shapiro's car. It, too, must be
replaced.
A member of the Civil
Rights Division of the FBI
has examined the cars and is
in the process of investigating
the case.
Weizman, a cabinet minister
and a former Defense Minister,
is known for his good relations
with Arabs. He was invited to
visit Cairo as Egyptian officials
hoped the trip would help solve a
number of outstanding disputes
with Israel. It was expected that
the Israel cabinet would give
routine approval.
Instead, the proposed
Weizman visit deepened the
splits between the Likud faction
which tends to be hawkish
towards Arabs and the Labor
Party which is more dovish. The
Likud faction protested the visit
charging that Weizman would
make wholesale concessions to
the Egyptians, including Taba, a
small patch of beachfront along
the Red Sea claimed by both
countries. Likud feared that
Labor was outflanking Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader
of Likud who opposes territorial
concessions.
Likud gathered sufficient
votes at a cbinet meeting last
Sunday to block the visit and on
Monday, again defeated the
Continued on Page fifteen^.
Reagan Reconsiders
Visit To
Concentration Camp
WASHINGTON � Respond-
ing to a growing wave of
criticism from Jewish and
veteran's groups, the White
House has dispatched Michael
K. Deaver, deputy chief of staff,
to Bonn, Germany "to look over
additional possibilities" to add
to President Reagan's itinerary.
The President is scheduled to
leave on a state visit to several
western European countries
later this month.
Earlier this year, the president
decided not to visit Dachau
while in Germany despite the
suggestion of the Bonn
government. He declined to visit
a concentration camp, according
to White House spokesmen,
because he didn't want to"
reopen old wounds." This
By Sam Seidner
attitude came under fire from a
variety of organizations, not all
Jewish, as being insensitive to
the worldwide attention being
paid to the 40th anniversary of
the liberation of Auschwitz and
other camps.
The criticism of Reagan's
decision gathered force as it was
learned that an official visit to
the Bitburg cemetary was
included in the president's
itinerary. There, Reagan will lay
a wreath on a site where
members of the SS, the elite Nazi
guard, are known to be buried.
"A visit to this particular
cemetary is unacceptable to us,"
said Elie Wiesel, chairman of the
United States Holocaust
Memorial Council. "This is not
just a cemetary of soldiers. This
is tombstones of the SS...These
men were criminals." Wiesel has
requested a meeting with
President Reagan. Wiesel is a
survivor of the Buchenwald
camp and is scheduled to be
honored with the Congressional
Gold Medal later this week in
Washington.
"I think the president really
didn't look into the matter,"said
Wiesel. I know how these things
work on high-level visits, so I am
sure he didn't go through every
detail. I think he can withdraw
the visit without losing face."
At the White House, Donald
T. Regan, chief of staff,
indicated that there was no
thought being given to
eliminating the visit to Bitburg
Continued on Page Fifteen
Kehillath Israel Draws Huge Crowd For Yom Hashoa Service
By Arnold Howard
A movingly sincere Yom
Hashoa (Day of Remembrance)
service, memorializing the six
million Jewish victims who
perished in the fury of the Nazi
Holocaust was held at
Congregation Kehillath Israel in
Brookline Sunday afternoon.
Over 1,000 people attended.
Various members of the
Jewish community spoke, and
traditional musical selections
were performed by the Zachor
Choral Ensemble and Cantor
Gregor Shelkan of Temple
Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill.
The service began with the
Lighting of the Candles in
Memory of Six Million by
several Survivors who were
present and members of One
Generation After, the children of
Survivors.
A Eulogy for the Children was
given by Jacob Birnbaum.
"Those emaciated children!
Who were they? They were like
your childen and mine. Eager,
bright, energetic! One million
children. Each with a destiny to
fulfill that was never to be
fulfilled," said Birnbaum. "Their
destinies are now rooted to
ours."
Referring to the recent news
that President Ronald Reagan
may visit a Nazi soldiers'
gravesite on his upcoming visit
to Germany and, at the same
time, omit a visit to Dachau,
Birnbaum continued.
"Forty years after, when
others are willing to forgive and
forget, let us speak out, cry out in
anguish that the world shall
never forget."
Michael Shiloh, Consul
General of Israel in New
England, said, "It is a great
mistake to think that the victims
are not around, and the time has
come to draw a line and get on
with today's politics.
"Will we, the first, second and
even third generation allow
Germany to forget its burden of
guilt to the Jewish People?
"We will not forget and we will
not permit the world to forget.
Ever.r
Shiloh also mentioned that his
parents left Germany with Otto
Frank and his family, the most
Continued on Page Fifteen
THRONGS LEAVE CONGREGATION
KEHILLATH ISRAEL at conclusion of Yom
Hashoa service Sunday afternoon.
Boston Jewish Times Photo by Robert Lepson

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Varon Stands On Matza
Page 2
Korf Springs Into Spring
Page 5
Mazor On Star Wars.
Page 6
THE BOSTON JEWISH TIMESWrite the vision and make it plain upon tables.
HABAKKUK 2:2
VOL. XXXX, NO. 34
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1985
27.NISAN5745
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
The Honeymoon Is Over
As Israeli Cabinet Bickers
JERUSALEM � Israel's
cabinet narrowly approved a
visit to Egypt by Ezer Weizman,
but cracks appeared in the
national unity government in the
process.
$1,000 REWARD
The Jewish Defense League
has offered $1,000 reward for
the apprehension of the
vandals who damaged two
cars outside the home of
Gerald Shapiro in Randolph
this weekend.
On Friday night, the
windshield to Gerald
Shapiro's >c�r was so badly
scratched that it will have to
be replaced.
On Saturday night, the
vandals returned and
attempted to scratch a
swastika on the back
windshield of Susan
Shapiro's car. It, too, must be
replaced.
A member of the Civil
Rights Division of the FBI
has examined the cars and is
in the process of investigating
the case.
Weizman, a cabinet minister
and a former Defense Minister,
is known for his good relations
with Arabs. He was invited to
visit Cairo as Egyptian officials
hoped the trip would help solve a
number of outstanding disputes
with Israel. It was expected that
the Israel cabinet would give
routine approval.
Instead, the proposed
Weizman visit deepened the
splits between the Likud faction
which tends to be hawkish
towards Arabs and the Labor
Party which is more dovish. The
Likud faction protested the visit
charging that Weizman would
make wholesale concessions to
the Egyptians, including Taba, a
small patch of beachfront along
the Red Sea claimed by both
countries. Likud feared that
Labor was outflanking Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader
of Likud who opposes territorial
concessions.
Likud gathered sufficient
votes at a cbinet meeting last
Sunday to block the visit and on
Monday, again defeated the
Continued on Page fifteen^.
Reagan Reconsiders
Visit To
Concentration Camp
WASHINGTON � Respond-
ing to a growing wave of
criticism from Jewish and
veteran's groups, the White
House has dispatched Michael
K. Deaver, deputy chief of staff,
to Bonn, Germany "to look over
additional possibilities" to add
to President Reagan's itinerary.
The President is scheduled to
leave on a state visit to several
western European countries
later this month.
Earlier this year, the president
decided not to visit Dachau
while in Germany despite the
suggestion of the Bonn
government. He declined to visit
a concentration camp, according
to White House spokesmen,
because he didn't want to"
reopen old wounds." This
By Sam Seidner
attitude came under fire from a
variety of organizations, not all
Jewish, as being insensitive to
the worldwide attention being
paid to the 40th anniversary of
the liberation of Auschwitz and
other camps.
The criticism of Reagan's
decision gathered force as it was
learned that an official visit to
the Bitburg cemetary was
included in the president's
itinerary. There, Reagan will lay
a wreath on a site where
members of the SS, the elite Nazi
guard, are known to be buried.
"A visit to this particular
cemetary is unacceptable to us,"
said Elie Wiesel, chairman of the
United States Holocaust
Memorial Council. "This is not
just a cemetary of soldiers. This
is tombstones of the SS...These
men were criminals." Wiesel has
requested a meeting with
President Reagan. Wiesel is a
survivor of the Buchenwald
camp and is scheduled to be
honored with the Congressional
Gold Medal later this week in
Washington.
"I think the president really
didn't look into the matter,"said
Wiesel. I know how these things
work on high-level visits, so I am
sure he didn't go through every
detail. I think he can withdraw
the visit without losing face."
At the White House, Donald
T. Regan, chief of staff,
indicated that there was no
thought being given to
eliminating the visit to Bitburg
Continued on Page Fifteen
Kehillath Israel Draws Huge Crowd For Yom Hashoa Service
By Arnold Howard
A movingly sincere Yom
Hashoa (Day of Remembrance)
service, memorializing the six
million Jewish victims who
perished in the fury of the Nazi
Holocaust was held at
Congregation Kehillath Israel in
Brookline Sunday afternoon.
Over 1,000 people attended.
Various members of the
Jewish community spoke, and
traditional musical selections
were performed by the Zachor
Choral Ensemble and Cantor
Gregor Shelkan of Temple
Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill.
The service began with the
Lighting of the Candles in
Memory of Six Million by
several Survivors who were
present and members of One
Generation After, the children of
Survivors.
A Eulogy for the Children was
given by Jacob Birnbaum.
"Those emaciated children!
Who were they? They were like
your childen and mine. Eager,
bright, energetic! One million
children. Each with a destiny to
fulfill that was never to be
fulfilled," said Birnbaum. "Their
destinies are now rooted to
ours."
Referring to the recent news
that President Ronald Reagan
may visit a Nazi soldiers'
gravesite on his upcoming visit
to Germany and, at the same
time, omit a visit to Dachau,
Birnbaum continued.
"Forty years after, when
others are willing to forgive and
forget, let us speak out, cry out in
anguish that the world shall
never forget."
Michael Shiloh, Consul
General of Israel in New
England, said, "It is a great
mistake to think that the victims
are not around, and the time has
come to draw a line and get on
with today's politics.
"Will we, the first, second and
even third generation allow
Germany to forget its burden of
guilt to the Jewish People?
"We will not forget and we will
not permit the world to forget.
Ever.r
Shiloh also mentioned that his
parents left Germany with Otto
Frank and his family, the most
Continued on Page Fifteen
THRONGS LEAVE CONGREGATION
KEHILLATH ISRAEL at conclusion of Yom
Hashoa service Sunday afternoon.
Boston Jewish Times Photo by Robert Lepson